I am trying to get some more books for my cold winter days season and I was wondering if anyone could pitch in with suggestions on books worth reading.Any topic on photography would do (lighting,various techniques ,criticism,aesthetics,good contemporary and not artists etc basically everything photography ). I am not looking for books that suggest that if you buy this and that expensive piece of equipment you'll magically become a photographer.

1. Adobe Photoshop CS4 The Ultimate Workshop - by Jeff S. and Martin E.2. Lost in Iceland (I love this book and never get sick of reading it).3. National Geographic - The Photographs - Full of all time Classics.4. Manufactured Landscapes - Another classic

I am trying to get some more books for my cold winter days season and I was wondering if anyone could pitch in with suggestions on books worth reading.Any topic on photography would do (lighting,various techniques ,criticism,aesthetics,good contemporary and not artists etc basically everything photography ). I am not looking for books that suggest that if you buy this and that expensive piece of equipment you'll magically become a photographer.

Thank you in advance for all your suggestions

Alban

I would suggest checking out Mike Johnston's blog (www.theonlinephotographer.com). I post my book reviews there, and they lean toward landscape monographs with an occasional book on technique, but there are also reviews by many others so you'll get a range of tastes. A recent post listed books on photo criticism.

I would suggest checking out Mike Johnston's blog (www.theonlinephotographer.com). I post my book reviews there, and they lean toward landscape monographs with an occasional book on technique, but there are also reviews by many others so you'll get a range of tastes. A recent post listed books on photo criticism.

Great site .I noticed Geoff Dyer's book was mentioned and I actually just read that book.Very good read indeed.

Alban, I don't know whether or not I've already said this on the forum, but in any case it can bear being said again: Anyone interested in photography as an art form MUST find and read Looking In, the catalog for Robert Frank's current show at the Metropolitan. If you possibly can, get the hardcover "expanded" edition which includes the contact sheets from which the pictures in Frank's The Americans were selected. You can learn a lot more about photography by looking at a master photographer's contacts than you can by looking at his finished product.

While you're looking, the best place to start might be Eugene Atget, and then on to Cartier-Bresson. Don't overlook anything by Garry Winogrand or Lee Friedlander, and, above all, Walker Evans. As Mike pointed out there are many, many more recommendations on this forum, so I'll stop here with the suggestions.

One thing's for sure: no amount of reading how-to books or articles about equipment is going to improve your photography. As Cartier-Bresson said, "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." Learning to look is what studying the work of our greatest predecessors is all about.

Alban, I don't know whether or not I've already said this on the forum, but in any case it can bear being said again: Anyone interested in photography as an art form MUST find and read Looking In, the catalog for Robert Frank's current show at the Metropolitan. If you possibly can, get the hardcover "expanded" edition which includes the contact sheets from which the pictures in Frank's The Americans were selected. You can learn a lot more about photography by looking at a master photographer's contacts than you can by looking at his finished product.

While you're looking, the best place to start might be Eugene Atget, and then on to Cartier-Bresson. Don't overlook anything by Garry Winogrand or Lee Friedlander, and, above all, Walker Evans. As Mike pointed out there are many, many more recommendations on this forum, so I'll stop here with the suggestions.

One thing's for sure: no amount of reading how-to books or articles about equipment is going to improve your photography. As Cartier-Bresson said, "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." Learning to look is what studying the work of our greatest predecessors is all about.

One thing's for sure: no amount of reading how-to books or articles about equipment is going to improve your photography. As Cartier-Bresson said, "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." Learning to look is what studying the work of our greatest predecessors is all about.

Um, I do not agree with this completely. Flash photography can be a bitch.

Alban, I don't know whether or not I've already said this on the forum, but in any case it can bear being said again: Anyone interested in photography as an art form MUST find and read Looking In, the catalog for Robert Frank's current show at the Metropolitan. If you possibly can, get the hardcover "expanded" edition which includes the contact sheets from which the pictures in Frank's The Americans were selected. You can learn a lot more about photography by looking at a master photographer's contacts than you can by looking at his finished product.

While you're looking, the best place to start might be Eugene Atget, and then on to Cartier-Bresson. Don't overlook anything by Garry Winogrand or Lee Friedlander, and, above all, Walker Evans. As Mike pointed out there are many, many more recommendations on this forum, so I'll stop here with the suggestions.

One thing's for sure: no amount of reading how-to books or articles about equipment is going to improve your photography. As Cartier-Bresson said, "Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything." Learning to look is what studying the work of our greatest predecessors is all about.

Thanks for the suggestion.This is exactly what I am looking for ,books that I can actually keep in library and study their works .Winogrand,Stieglitz,Evans,Kertesz are among my favorites.